A collection of short stories, Proud Flesh explores what meanings lie at the ecstatic heart of women's experience, particularly in terms of women's multi-layered and multiple relationships. As in l'ecriture feminine, the author attempts to "write the body," drawing on the premise that women experience life and relationships primarily from within the locus of their bodies and that these libidinal experiences mirror and create their emotional and intellectual wisdom to form a whole response. / Characters deal constantly in a world of relationships with husbands, lovers, parents or friends. For each one, the character usually finds her meaning, another face of her self-knowledge, in the places where the relationship has shredded itself to the point of disintegration. The protagonists are women who encounter and finally confront their emotional wounds in a physical way. By embracing illuminations of their particular truth, they begin to recognize the potential for healing and for integration. How each character heals herself relies on her openness and vulnerability to another and ultimately to herself. / The characters in these stories deal with religious dilemmas, within a religious context, or with their notion of goodness in the world. These characters are primarily concerned with what it means to love freely and loyally. They come to understand the healing that such recognition can bring and they usually see that what their bodies tell them is the closest thing they have to what God says. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-12, Section: A, page: 4119. / Major Professor: Sheila Ortiz Taylor. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1990.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_78368 |
| Contributors | Carey, Rita., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 165 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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